The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Brooks tells the men how Andy helped a guard avoid a beating; they doubt the story.

Scene 69 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Floyd
Brooks
Heywood
Red
Andy

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 46 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 69

After a banker is wrongly imprisoned for murder, he uses patience, expertise, and friendship to survive Shawshank and build a path to freedom.

Scenes 1–8
Andy’s former life and conviction frame a banker whose apparent control has vanished.
Scenes 9–10
Inside prison, Andy needs a way to survive without surrendering the inner self he is trying to protect.
Scenes 11–30
Andy enters Shawshank and confronts its violence, hierarchy, and rules.
Scene 31
Andy and Red begin the friendship that will carry the film’s argument about hope and connection.
Scene 51
Andy tells Red that prisoners retain an inner life and hope, though Red warns hope can be dangerous.
Just before
Scene 66
Norton questions Andy about his church sampler and asks whether he can do taxes.
Scene 67
Andy meets Jake the crow while exploring the storage rooms.
Scene 68
Brooks shows Andy the shabby prison library and its small collection.
Scene 69
This scene

69INT -- MESS HALL -- DAY (1949)

FLOYD

He didn't say that!

BROOKS

God is my witness. And Dekins, he

just blinks for a second, then

laughs his ass off. Afterward, he

actually shook Andy's hand.

HEYWOOD

My ass!

BROOKS

Shook his fuckin' hand. Just about

shit myself. All Andy needed was a

suit and tie, a jiggly little hula

girl on his desk, he would'a been

Mister Dufresne, if you please.

RED

Makin' yourself some friends, Andy.

ANDY

I wouldn't say "friends." I'm a

convicted murderer who provides

sound financial planning. That's a

wonderful pet to have.

RED

Got you out of the laundry, didn't

it?

ANDY

Maybe it can do more than that.

(off their looks)

How about expanding the library?

Get some new books in there.

HEYWOOD

How you 'spect to do that, "Mr.

Dufresne-if-you-please?"

ANDY

Ask the warden for funds.

LAUGHTER all around. Andy blinks at them.

BROOKS

Son, I've had six wardens through

here during my tenure, and I have

learned one great immutable truth

of the universe: ain't one of 'em

been born whose asshole don't

pucker up tight as a snare drum

when you ask for funds.